Computers... bah. who needs em?

i totally love my laptop, but the last two days its been trying my patience.

take one: im sitting here, surfing the 'net for work opportunities and what happens??? stupid antivirus 2009 goes ahead and downloads itself (only partially mind you) and starts tryig to charge me to fully upload the rest of it. it also comes up with 41 'malicious threats' against my machine...

right. so my dad installs nortan, corporate edition and it finds... get this... NOTHING. i un-install antivirus 2009. all's done and over, no one gets hurt, right???

wrongo... the freaking av2009 is still running and claiming that my system is freaking infected. the crazy part of it is... its not!!!

so, my dad helps me to restore the software back to a month ago, which deletes all prior installations and upgrades and whoo-hah and what-nots. we re-load (and by we, i mean he) the norton corporate, and it starts running...

lo and behold, *regal announcement voice* NO VIRUSES DETECTED *trumpets blare*

the thing has run at least 10 virus scans since then, and nothing... its my logical conclusion that av2009 is a virus in its own right and should be shot on sight. i mean seriously, it freaking LOADED ITSELF ONTO MY COMPUTER, then refused to go away after i un-installed it. and yes, to those of you smart-alecs out there, i did reboot the entire system... twice...

so, tonight, i go to logon to catch up on my Ugly Betty episodes, i click on my little speaker symbol to take it off mute, and guess what...

in all the 'virus malee'

someone deleted the sound program...

i'll say it again... computers suck donkey balls.

and that's all i have to say about that